Homer Quotes About Heaven
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Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.
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Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.
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Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow.
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All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them.
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Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links Both Goddesses and Gods.
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For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the grip of death./ But glaring under his brows Odysseus answered: 'You yellow dogs, you thought I'd never make it/ home from the land of Troy. You took my house to plunder,/ twisted my maids to serve your beds. You dared/ bid for my wife while I was still alive./ Contempt was all you had for the gods who rule wide heaven,/ contempt for what men say of you hereafter./ Your last hour has come. You die in blood.
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Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable
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Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!
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It's man's to fight, but heaven's to give success.
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Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.
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And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.
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Nobody gets into heaven without a glowstick.
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Now from the smooth deep ocean-stream the sun Began to climb the heavens, and with new rays Smote the surrounding fields.
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